or literally "red music", is the common name of the revolutionary music () genre in Vietnam.Alexander Cannon Reorienting the Voices in : Constructing Identity in Vietnamese Revolutionary Songs. Red music was formed during the communist Việt Minh and the First Indochina War and later strongly promoted across communist North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, to urge Northerners to achieve reunification under the Workers' Party of Vietnam and fight against the "American imperialist puppet" in South Vietnam. Other forms of non-traditional, non-revolutionary music and culture in the North, like Vietnamese popular music and Western music and culture, were banned, being labelled as "counter-revolutionary", "bourgeois", or "capitalist".
One of the earliest composers of revolutionary songs was Đinh Nhu (1910–1945).Asian music: journal of the Society for Asian Music Volume 35 Page 75 Society for Asian Music 2004 " Đinh Nhu (1910-1945) assumes an important position in the hagiography of Vietnamese revolutionary music. Captured by the French after participating in the Nghệ Tĩnh Soviet uprising in 1930, he organized cultural events in prison including plays and singing." Trọng Tấn (born 1976) is considered the young "" (Prince of Red Music).
See also Political music in China — red music in China
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